\nDemi Moore grits her teeth and looks disappointed after 2025 Oscar loss to Mikey Madison\n
Demi Moore didn\u2019t take home the gold at the 2025 Academy Awards.\n
\u201cThe Substance\u201d star, 62, lost the trophy for Best Actress at the Oscars on Sunday to Mikey Madison, 25, who won for her role in \u201cAnora.\u201d\n
Moore looked visibly disappointed and gritted her teeth as Madison\u2019s name was called, as seen in a video on X.\n
The actress quickly recovered and started clapping for Madison.\n
\u201cThis is very surreal,\u201d Madison stated as she accepted the award. \u201cI grew up in Los Angeles, but Hollywood always felt so far away from me, so to be here, standing in this room today is really incredible.\u201d\n
\u201cI just want to recognize and honor the sex worker community,\u201d she added. \u201cYes. I will continue to support and be an ally. All of the incredible people, the women that I\u2019ve had the privilege of meeting from that community has been one of the highlights of this incredible experience.\u201d\n
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Madison noted, \u201cI also just want to recognize the thoughtful, intelligent, beautiful, breathtaking work of my fellow nominees. I\u2019m honored to be recognized alongside all of you. This is a dream come true.\u201d\n
\u201cAnora\u201d is about a sex worker (Madison) who gets her fairy tale after marrying the son of a Russian oligarch until his parents get wind of their union.\n
\u201cThe Substance,\u201d meanwhile, followed an Oscar-winning actress (Moore) turned fitness guru and TV star whose career abruptly ended after turning 50.\n
Despite losing, Moore\u2019s co-star Dennis Quaid knew early on that she was destined for greatness in this role.\n
\u201cI knew it like my second day working on that movie. I told Demi she\u2019s going to win an Oscar for it,\u201d Quaid, 70, exclusively told The Post last month.\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just an incredible performance. It\u2019s a gargantuan effort. I mean, it took nine months to do that. She was in makeup for like six, eight hours at a time. And the whole movie, what it says \u2014 Coralie [Fargeat] as a director, I just love working with her. She reminds me of Stanley Kubrick and Sam Peckinpah put together,\u201d he said.\n
Originally, Moore was not even expected to nab an Oscar nomination when awards season kicked off in earnest just two months ago.\n
No one was more surprised than the \u201cIndecent Proposal\u201d star when her name was called out by Kerry Washington as the winner for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy at the 2025 Golden Globes on Jan. 5.\n
Beating out frontrunners Cynthia Erivo (\u201cWicked) and Madison (\u201cAnora\u201d), a stunned Moore delivered the evening\u2019s most memorable acceptance speech.\n
\u201cI really wasn\u2019t expecting that. I\u2019m just in shock right now. I\u2019ve been doing this a long time, like, over 45 years, and this is the first time I\u2019ve ever won anything as an actor, and I\u2019m just so humbled and so grateful,\u201d Moore said.\n
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The actress then revealed a story about how a Hollywood producer once told her she\u2019d never be more than a \u201cpopcorn actress\u201d \u2013 in other words, she might star in blockbuster hits, but she\u2019d never win critical acclaim for her work. That calculus proved wrong.\n
\u201cThirty years ago, I had a producer tell me that I was a \u2018popcorn actress,\u2019\u201d Moore confessed. \u201cAnd at that time, I made that mean that this wasn\u2019t something that I was allowed to have. That could do movies that were successful that made a lot of money, but that I couldn\u2019t be acknowledged.\u201d\n
Moore continued, \u201cAnd I bought in and I believed that. And that corroded me over time to the point where I thought, a few years ago, that maybe this was it. Maybe I was complete. Maybe I\u2019ve done what I was supposed to do.\u201d\n
\u201cIn those moments when we don\u2019t think we\u2019re smart enough or pretty enough or skinny enough or successful enough or basically just not enough,\u201d Moore said.\n
But that mode of thinking was derailed when a woman told her, \u201cJust know, you will never be enough. But you can know the value of your worth if you just put down the measuring stick.\u201d\n
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The message stuck.\n
\u201cAnd so today, I celebrate this as a marker of my wholeness and of the love that is driving me and for the gift of doing something I love and being reminded that I do belong,\u201d Moore said.\n
The speech shot her to the head of the pack of actresses vying for the Oscar. Speaking for many who posted on social media, praising Moore\u2019s paean to the power of the human spirit, critic Zo\u00eb Rose Bryant wrote on X, \u201cShe might be taking it all after that speech.\u201d\n
Indeed, Moore did go on to score some of the season\u2019s most coveted acting prizes, including Best Actress wins at the SAG and Critics\u2019 Choice Awards ceremonies.\n
\u201cThis has been such a wild ride, I can\u2019t tell you when I started this journey on this film, I could never imagine being here,\u201d she said at the Critics\u2019 Choice Awards in Santa Monica, California, on Feb. 7, continuing her streak of inspirational speeches. \u201cIt\u2019s so far beyond what I hoped for.\u201d\n
She added, \u201cFor anybody out there who is still on their journey, who is still struggling to find their way, because it hasn\u2019t happened, it doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s not happening, dreams do come true.\u201d\n
Moore\u2019s road to realizing her dream began when she got her big break in 1985\u2019s \u201cSt. Elmo\u2019s Fire,\u201d which followed a group of recent college graduates\u2019 adventures \u2014 and misadventures \u2014 as they entered the \u201creal world.\u201d\n
That movie also cemented Moore as a member of the so-called \u201cBrat Pack,\u201d the much-derided group of young Hollywood 1980s stars that included Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Andrew McCarthy, Rob Lowe, Ally Sheedy, Judd Nelson and Emilio Estevez.\n
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But it was in the 1990s that Moore struck out on her own and became a \u201cpopcorn\u201d queen, starring in two hit romance movies: \u201cGhost\u201d (which topped the US box office in 1990) and \u201cIndecent Proposal\u201d (1993).\n
Moore also won a supporting role in the lauded 1992 military drama \u201cA Few Good Men,\u201d penned by Aaron Sorkin.\n
She made history in 1995 when she earned $12.5 million to star in \u201cStriptease,\u201d which followed a former FBI office assistant (Moore) who turned to stripping to pay for her legal fees after her ex-husband got custody of their daughter.\n
The payday made her not only the highest-paid actress in Hollywood at the time but also the first actress in history to make upwards of $10 million for a role.\n
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The milestone did not endear her to the public, though, labeled in certain corners of the media as \u201cGimme Moore\u201d while her then-husband, Bruce Willis, took even bigger paychecks and received no criticism on par with Moore\u2019s.\n
\u201cI think the interesting piece is that when I became the highest-paid actress \u2014 why is it that, at that moment, the choice was to bring me down?\u201d Moore said on The New York Times\u2019 \u201cThe Interview\u201d podcast in September.\n
\u201cI don\u2019t take this personally,\u201d she added. \u201cI think anyone who had been in the position that was the first to get that kind of equality of pay would probably have taken a hit.\u201d\n
Acknowledging the backlash she also faced for appearing nude in the movie, Moore added, \u201cBecause I did a film that was dealing with the world of stripping and the body, I was extremely shamed.\u201d\n
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The star followed up \u201cStriptease\u201d with another controversial film, \u201cG.I. Jane,\u201d about a US Navy topographic analyst who joins the Navy\u2019s Special Warfare Group and struggles to prove her worth in a unit dominated by men.\n
\u201cWell, with \u2018Striptease,\u2019 it was as if I had betrayed women, and with \u2018G.I. Jane,\u2019 it was as if I had betrayed men,\u201d Moore noted in \u201cThe Interview.\u201d\n
Both \u201cStriptease\u201d and \u201cG.I. Jane\u201d flopped at the box office.\n
In the ensuing years, Moore would act only periodically, though she delivered memorable performances in movies such as \u201cCharlie\u2019s Angels: Full Throttle\u201d (2003) and \u201cMargin Call\u201d (2011).\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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